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GREENSBORO, If. C, MONDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1816
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF FOftj
— «
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE
READERS OF THE PATRIOT
FAR AND NEAR. ^
On His Old Job.—Mr. Exton Bar-ker
has disposed of his interest in
IIK firm of Hiatt & Barker and is
acoin with Thacker & Brockm^nn,
■K-ire he served the public accept-iit;
v for several years.
Property Leased.—The city com-missioners
have leased to R. L. Steed
several acres of land surrounding
ihe septic tank on South Buffalo
creek. The lessee will use the land
for agricultural purposes.
Sudden Death—Mr. William Rich-ardson,
a brother of Mr. L. Richard-s-
on, of this city, died suddenly Fri-day
afternoon at his home in Selma.
He was 72 years old and is survived
by his widow, a son and three daugh-lers.
To Build New Churcli.—The mem-bers
of the Methodist church at
Pleasant Garden are considering
plans tor the erection of a new
church building. They propose to
build a church to cost not less than
$5,000.
Negroes to Meet.—A tall has been
issued for a meeting of the colored
citizens of the city in thj court house
tomorrow night to consider several
questions of local interest to the
rate, especially the establishment of
a public library.
Revival Meeting.—A series of
Evangelistic services will begin at
Westminster Presbyterian church
Friday night and continue through
the next week. The pastor, Rey. C.
E. Hodgin, will be assisted by Rev.
Robert King, of Kenansville.
Social Meeting.—A large number
oi the members of the congregation
oi Asheboro Street Friends church
enjoyed a social meeting at the
cji reh Friday night. A splendid sup-per
was a pleasing feature of the
evening's entertainment.
Buys Farm.—Mr. R. D. Douglas
Jias purchased from Messrs. W. H.
and Clarence Woods, administrators,
the home place of the late J. R.
Woods, in Greene township, consist-ing
of 263 acres. The purchase price
was something over $5,000.
Fourteen Arrested.—The police
oflicers of the city yesterday arrest-ed
14 negroes charged with retail-ing,
this being the biggest blind tiger
raid made here in a long while. The
prisoners were locked up to await
trial in Municipal court today.
Home Burned.—The home of Mr.
A. C. Coletrane, who resides about
seven miles south of Greensboro,
was destroyed by fire last Wednes-day
night. The members of the fam-ily
were aroused by the flames about
midnight and had time to save but
I'ttJe of the household effects.
Adopt Children.—Mr. and Mrs.
Fletcher McCulloch, of the Alamance
church community, who have not
ben blessed by the arrival of chil-drm
in their home, have just adopt-ed
a boy and a girl, and one of their
neighbors tells The Patriot that they
art. as proud of them as if it had
be* n a case of twins.
Revival Services.—An interesting
and helpful revival meeting is in pro-gress
in the Methodist church at
Peasant Garden. Rev. D. H. Co-man,
an evangelist of the Western
-"'Jo.-ih Carolina Conference, was call-ed
to the assistance of the pastor,
Rev. P. L. Terrell, and has been
preaching splendid sermons.
Xfi.is Barbara Neese Dead.—Miss
Barbara Neese, a well known woman
'■•' southern Guilford, died yesterday
'••' the home of her brother-in-law,
Mr. C. M. Jobe. She was 64 years
• "1 and had been in failing health
' '• a year or more. She is survived
"v her sister, Mrs. Jobe, and two
brothers, Messrs. John and Frank
X<•se.
Increasing Force.—The convict
force of the city is being increased
by the city court sending negroes to
that body instead of to the county
roads. The good weather now is en-abJSng
the department of public
works pf the city government to be-
Sin work on streets in the greatest
need of improvement and a strong
body of convicts can be used.
Mrs. Frank Sink Dead.—Mrs.
Prank Sink died suddenly Saturday
night at 11 o'clock at her home
°n Spring Garden street. She was
4 2 years old and is survived by her
husband and seven children. The
fur.eral was held from the home this
morning at 10 o'clock and Interment
re»<ie in Greene Hill cemetery. Mrs.
"ay Carlton Ledford, of Winston-
Salem. a sister of Mrs. Sink, died
«« Monday.
VOL. 94-NO. 13
Died Last Night.—Mr. G. E. Clark,
a well known citizen of Greensboro,
died at his home on South Eugene
street last night at 8.30 o'clock, fol-ding
an illness of 18 months. He
was 66 years old a.id is survived by
his widow, three sons and four
daughters. The body was carried
this morning to Charlottesville, Va.,
the former home of the family,
where the funeral and interment will
take place this afternoon.
Aged Woman Dead—Miss Amelia,
Langley died Friday afternoon at the
home of her nephew, Mr. C. P. Lang-ley,
on West Market street. She was
77 years old and had been in feeble
health for quite a while. The fu-neral
was held from the residence
Saturday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock
and was conducted by Rev. J.. R.
Miller, of St. Andrew's Episcopal
church. Interment was made in
Greene Hill cemetery.
Studying Fanning.—Many negro
farmers of the state are attending
the fifth annual convention and
school for negro farmers at the Ag-ricultural
and Mechanical College
for the colored race. Among the
speakers that have addressed the
meetings are E. S. Millsaps, E. H.
Anderson, C. S. Browne, Doctor Ly-man.
Doctor Fulton, Doctor Ross,
Miss Mahler, Prof. E. C. Combs, C.
R. Hudson and others. . All subjects
Of agriculture and husbandry are
being discussed.
School' Board Meets.—The Guil-ford
county board of education held
a special meeting Saturday after-noon,
in the office of County Super-intendent
Foust, to consider several
matter* that relate to the education-al
advancement of the county. The
only definite action taken was a deci-sion
to enlarge the grounds of the
Pomona graded school, this being
made necessary by the increased en-rollment.
The establish innet of a
training school for colored teachers
and other matters will be considered
M another meeting of the board to
be "held today.
Insurance Meeting.—The annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Company was held at the company's
home office in this city last Thurs-day,
when very satisfactory reports
were submitted of the past year's
business. The reports showed the
insurance in force to be about $43,-
000,000, the gain for the year being
about $2,500,000. The assets of the
company amount to $5,500,000 and
the surplus fund is richer by $200.-
000 on account of the accumulations
of the past year. Following the meet-ing
of the stockholders, the directors
held a meeting and re-elected the of-ficers
of the company.
Work For the Idle.—Mr. W. M.
Weatherly appeared before the city
commissioners Friday afternoon with
a proposition that the city provide
work for the unemployed people of
the community. He thought it would
be a good idea for the city to buy
tnachinery and do its own street im-provement
work, instead of letting
it out to contractors, and he also
suggested that the municipality
might engage in the manufacturing
business to good advantage. Mr.
Weatherly estimated that there are
about 3,500 idle people in the city
and county, and he thought it would
be a fine thing for the city to pro-vide
jobs for those who are out of
work.
Beautiful Sentiment.—Mr. W. J.
Armfield, of High Point, who has
played no small part in the develop-ment
of the financial and industrial
life of Guilford county and the state,
has just celebrated his seventy-first
birthday, and in commemoration of
the event he sent to many of his
friends and business associates the
following beautiful sentiment: "At
the age of 71 I can truly say the
world has been good to me. The
days are very beautiful and life still
has its charm. I hear the music of
the winds, read poems in the sunny
landscapes and see pictures in the
stormy clouds. God rules and is
merciful." Mr. Armfield has thou-sands
of personal friends and busi-ness
acquaintances who wish for him
many happy returns.
Peace Contest—The state intercol-legiate
oratorical peace contest for
a first prize of $75 and a second
price of $5 0 will be held in the audi-torium
of Meredith College in Ral-eigh
Friday night. Nine colleges
will be represented, these being as
follows: Atlantic Christian College,.
Wake Forest, Agricultural and Me-chanical,
Trinity, the University,
Eton, Guilford, Davidson and Lenoir.
MERCHANTS BOLD MEETING
GREENSBORO BUSINESS MEN IN
ANNUAL SESSION—NEW
OFFICERS.
The annual meeting of the Greens-boro
Retail Merchants' Association
was held Friday night in the Odd
Fellows' hall, on West Market street.
Mr. J. M. Hendrix was elected pres-ident
for the ensuing year, succeed-ing
Mr. J. Norman Wills. Mr. C. H.
Grantham was elected vice president
and Miss Muriel Joynef was re-elect-ed
secretary.
Discussing the relation of the mer-chant
to the bad pay customer, the
retiring president stated that the
merchant should bear in mind that
his goods were his money and that
he was not really favoring a custom-er
when he gave him too burdensome
credit. Mr. Wills reported the suc-cess
of sn advertising contract with
a local paper which was paid for by
voluntary subscriptions, and declared
that the tobacco market and other
semi-public industries have been aid-ed
in their growth by Merchants'
Association propaganda.
To the resolution of i year ago
that the association furnish aid to
worthy merchantile enterprises
which are temporarily embarrassed,
by the extension of credit on proper
recommendation, Mr. Wills devoted
a few minutes of approval. He com-mended
the spirit of brotherllness
which has enabled the merchants to
aid each other. Upon motion from
the floor, the address bf the retiring
president was made a matter of per-manent
record.
Miss Joyner made the report of
the secretary-treasurer. This report
showel that $404.69 in debts has
been collected during the year by
the association for its members.
Mr. K. C. Bernau, chairman of the
advertising committee, told of the
work of his committee in uncovering
fake advertising schemes and pre
venting their successful operation in
the city.
Shop-lifting will be vigorously
prosecuted, regardless of the posi-tion
of the thief, when discovered,
the association decided by endorsing
the recommendation to that effect
made by Mr. J. M. Hendrix, who was
chairman of a committee of investi-gation.
Mr. H. E. Cartland offered a reso-lution,
which was adopted, whereby
the merchants pledged themselves to
prosecute each case of the giving of
bad checks for goods which occurs
in the city trade. It was pointed out
that this misdemeanor is becoming
more common, and after considera-tion
of the law under which the cases
ian be handled, the resolution was
adopted. By resolution, too, it was
desided to prosecute persons who ob-tain
goods for approval and retain
them unpaid for after demand is
made for their return or their money
equivalent.
Mayor T. J. Murphy spoke briefly
upon invitation.
The association endorsed the city
banks' Christmas savings plan.
The work of Mr. Wills, the retir-ing
president, was warmly endorsed
by resolution.
TEACHERS OF COUNTY
HELD MEETINGS SATURDAY.
The monthly meeting of the gram-mar
grade section of the Guilford
County Teachers' Association was
held in the Court house annex Satur-day
morning at 10.30 o'clock. Mr.
H. W. Reynolds, principal of the
Center school and president of the
grammar grade section, presided.
Several chapters of "Geographic
Influences in American History
were discussed by the teachers. Miss
Kime, of the Pomona school, talked
on "The Appalachian Barrier and
the Great Lakes;" Miss Rosa Case,
of the Muir's Chapel school, discuss-ed
"The Prairie;" Miss Ida Millls, of
he Guilford College graded school,
took as her subject, "The Story of
the Civil War," and also talked on
"Cotton, Rice and Cane." Altogeth-er
the meeting was very helpful'and
interesting.
At the next regular meeting, which
will be held on the ISth of March,
the grammar grade teachers are ex-pected
to discuss how to make agri-culture
and civil government inter-esting:
Mrs. John A. Barringer Dead.
Mrs. John A. Barringer died Fri-day
morning at 3 o'clock at the fam-ily
home on Ashe street, following
an illness of three or four days of
pneumonia. It was not generally
known that Mrs. Barringer was crit-ically
ill, and the announcement of
her death came as a distinct shock
to the community.
Mrs. Barringer was the wife of
Col. John A. Barringer, one of the
most prominent members of the
Greensboro bar, and a daughter of
the late Robert M. Sloan. She was
a woman of deep culture and refine-ment
and was greatly beloved by all
who knew her. She is survived by
her husband and a daughter, Mrs.
John D. Waldrop, of Norfolk, Va.,
and four sisters—Mrs. Fannie
Logan, Mrs. Neil Ellington and Mrs.
Julia Mebane, of Greensboro, and
Mrs. Jefferson Scales, of Staten Is-land,
N. Y.
The funeral was held from the
home Saturday afternoon and was
conducted by Rev. Dr. Melton Clark,
pastor of the . First Presbyterian
church, of which Mrs. Barringer had
been a member since early in life.
Interment was made in Greene Hill
cemetery.
Mr. G. A. Kirkman, of Greensboro
Route 1, was a welcome caller at
The Patriot off;ce Saturday after-noon,:
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The Guilford County Primary
Teachers' Association also held a
meeting in the court house annex
Saturday. Miss Bettie Aiken Land,
of the Pomona school, president of
the association, presided. Miss
Madge Coble, of the Pomona school,
gave an interesting talk on "Story
Telling." This was followed by
"Thefltory of the Three Bears," told
by MJks Maribell Thomas, of the
Proximity kindergarten, who, in
tellinf the story, illustrated tho
prlnc^les which Miss Coble had
givenig The story was presented iu
such '% way as to make it real'.stic
to the children, special attention be-ing
given to gestures, tone of voice,
etc. i
Mn, Lizzie Mclver Weathersponn
supervisor of drawing in the training
schooj jftf the State Normal and In
dusmfiPH?trHege,'~was -present iind-discussed
with the primary teachers
the subject of drawing. Mrs. V'eath-erapoon
is a woman of culture and
has made a careful study of the sub-ject
of drawing and, therefore, was
ai-lt* to give the teachers many help-ful
suggestions on this somewhat
rather neglected subject. T»«? teach-ers
present took advantage of the op-portunity
to ask questions and gam-ed
mucn valuable Information.
The primary teachers are doing
good work in these meetinvro and get-ting
much valuable information to
carry back to their school rooms for
practical use. Their mee'ing? are al-ways
interesting, and the teachers
are very enthusiastic in their work.
MRS. ELVIRA BOON DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS.
Mrs. Elvira Boon, widow of the
late ex-Sheriff C. A. Boon, died
early Thursday morning at her
home near Sedalia. She had been
an an invalid for years and helpless
for a long while. She was in the
eighty-fourth year of her age.
The funeral and interment took
place Friday at noon at Bethel Pres-byterian
church, the services being
conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. E.
Redding, and Rev. S. M. Rankin. A
large crowd was present and the
graves of both Mrs. Boon and her
husband were covered with a profu-sion
of floral offerings. The follow-ing
grandsons of Mrs. Boon served
as pall-bearers: Charles Boon, Percy
Cobb, Clyde Clapp. Leslie, Porter
and Robert Troxler. The flow.er-bearers
were five granddaughters
and one great-granddaughter of the
deceased: Misses Marie Summers,
Lizzie Dick, Myrtle Boon, Nola Dick
and Joy Garrison. .
Mrs. Boon is survived by six chil-dren,
who are: Mrs. B. C. Troxler,
of Mill Point; George Boon, of
Greensboro Route 2; Mrs. G. L. Sum-mers,
of Gibsonvllle; Mrs. J. S. Fer-guson,
of Hartshorn; E. E. and Miss
Zula Boon, who reside at the old
home. The following eight step-chil-dren
also survive: H. M. Boon, of
eMphis, Tenn.; R. A. and R. M.
Boon, of Indianapolis, Ind.; J. D.
and D. L. Boon, of McLeansvllle;
Mrs. John A. Cobb, of Greensboro
Route 2; Mrs. Mattie Clapp, of Sum-merfield;
Mrs. John F. Dick, of
Greensboro Route 2, and Mrs.
George Summers.
The Patriot was glad to receive a
call Saturday afternoon from Mr.
John S. McMasters, of the Alamance
church neighborhood.
IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE'S
LAWMAKERS IN. THE SENATE
AND HOUSE.
The Hobgood equal suffrage bill
had an airing on the floor of the
senate Friday, giving Senator Hob-good
opportunity to warn his fellow
senators that equal suffrage is a
coming issue and that it must win
in this state ultimately. He said
his "house was divided against it-self,"
but that this only went to
show that in his advocacy of the bill
he is tied to no apron string.
When the bill came up Senator
Johnson, of Duplin, moved to indefi-nitely
postpone, as the house had
done the duplicate bill by Roberts,of
Buncombe, in that end of the capi-tol.
v Hobgood strenuously resisted
:this and resented alleged efforts to
cut off debate. Johnson insisted this
was not the case and, with reiterat-ed
charges by advocates of the bill,
he withdrew this motion and made
another to table the bill and give a
direct expression on the measure.
However, this was finally in turn
withdrawn, and the bill set as a
special order for Thursday of this
week.
Provision for a legislative refer-ence
librarian to perform his duties
under the direction of the North
Carolina historical commission is
made in a bill just introduced in
the senate by Senator Thompson, of
Onslow, and carrying an appropria-tion
of $5,000. The librarian would
collect and prepare in accessible
form references for legislative com-mittees,
and other slate officials tnd
for the counties and municipal gov-ernment,
keep the recorls and sup-ply
the specifiic informa'ion wanted.
He would also keep the state revisal
revised up to date and perform any
other duties that the state historical
commission might requiie of him.
Tomorrow will see the final pas-sage
of the revenue bill in the house
and its transfer to the senate, where
it is thought that it will come in for
very few changes, and also, most
probably the final passage of the
machinery bill, which, howveer, has
not come into the house from the
joint finance committee.
Some sort of a state-wide primary
will also come in during this week,
most probably in the senate, where a
sub-committee has been working on
a substitute for the Weaver-Hob-good
and other primary bills intro-duced.
The Weaver child labor bill is to
be a special order in the senate
Tuesday morning, coming up under
unfavorable report from committee
through favorable minority report.
An important special order in the
house is that of the senate bill for
uniform examination and certifica-tion
of public school teachers. It is
set for Wednesday at noon.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY MAKES
BIG REAL ESTATE DEAL.
There has been much Interest and
speculation in local real estate and
business circles during the past few
days over the announcement that the
Southern Railway has purchased or
secured options on practiclaly an en-tire
block of property on East Wash-ington
street. With the exception of
the Doak property, the purchases
and options include all the real es-tate
between East Washington street
and the railroad tracks from Lyndon
street to the sidetrack in the rear of
the wholesale houses on South Davie
street. It is one of the biggest real
estate transactions in the history of
Greensboro. The amount of money
involved in the deal Is not known.
The Southern is acquiring the
property for depot purposes, and it
is understood that the work of con-structing
new freight and passenger
depots will be begun as soon as all
the details can be arranged. Th#
plans look to the erection of the"
freight depot on the Washington
street property and tbv passenger
station on the side occupied by the
freight depot that was abandoned
some years ago, on Depot street, be-tween
Sbuth Elm and South Davie.
A definite announcement as to the
plans may be expected as soon as the
Southern completes the purchase bf
he various pieces of property in-volved.
RURAL DELIVERY SERVICE
IS TO BE CURTADLED.
Got Another Man's Money.
Carl I.arkin, a young white man
about 20 years of age, was arrested
in the Greensboro postoffice Thurs-day
just after he had obtained $15
on a postoffice money order that be-longed
to another. He was given a
hearing before - United States Com-missioner
Collins and bound over to
the next term of Federal court.
i.arkin and a comps'iion by the
name of Dague, both of whom are
from Ohio, had been serving a term
on the roads for beating a ride on a
train. They finished their terms
Wednesday evening and were dis-charged.
Dague had written home
for money and was expecting a let-ter.
Larkin started to town ahead
of him, met the carrier and got the
letter containing the order. Dague
phoned to Postmaster Douglas, who
found Larkin getting the money
when he went to the money order
desk.
Death of William A Jobe.
Mr. William A. Jobe, a well
known and highly respected citizen
of the Alamance church community,
died at his home about 2 o'clock
Saturday morning. He had been ill
for a long while, suffering from a
complication of diseases, and his
death was not unexpected.
The funeral and interment took
place at Alamance church yesterday
morning at 11 o'clock, the services
being conducted by Rev. Dr. E. C.
Murray, the pastor.
Mr. Jobe was a good citizen and
will be missed by the people of the
community. He was about 55 years
old and is survived by three daugh-ters
and five sons. Hn wife died
about two years ago.
A sweeping reorganization of the
rural delivery mail service through-out
the United States for purposes
of economy will be completed within
the next six months, in accordance
with amendments to the existing
postal laws and regulations issued
Saturday by Postmaster General
Burleson. The effect of the new reg-ulations
will be the discontinuance
of many routes in sparsely settled
communities, the reduction in fre-quency
of service of many routes, re-arranging
of many routes where
duplication may exist and increasing
the difficulties in establishing new
routes.
Data upon which changes in exist-ing
routes are to be based will be se-cured
by postmasters. During one
month of each quarter every piece
of mail carried by rural carriers
shall be counted and weighed and an
accurate account shall be made of
the number of patrons served.
Routes on which the quantity of
mail collected and delivered has
averaged for six consecutive months
less than 75 pieces per month per
mile are to be discontinued unless
they can be rearranged so as to come
under the new rules.
This regulation will make the
greatest changes in North Carolina
of all the new rules, for three are
many routes serving sparsely settled
communities which cannot 3how ihe
s-equlred number of pieces of mail.
Routes which have service not more
frequent than three times a week
will have the greatest difficulty in
getting dally service. The require-ment
for increase of thrice-weekly
service is that 150 pieces of mail per
mile per month shall be delivered
to families numbering four to the
mile.
Postmaster Douglas says the new
regulations will not affect any of the
routes running out of Greensboro,
but he could not speak as to all the
routes in the county.
Earthquake and Tidal Wave Destroy
Towns.
Tutuila, American Samoa. Feb. 12
—An earthquake and a tidal wave
accompanied the hurricane which
swept No Man's Island of the Sa-moan
group, first reports of which
reached here two days ago Fuller
details received today show that
three persons were killed.
Entire villages disappeared. Those
of which traces remained were ruin-ed.
All shipping either was destroy-ed
or badly damaged. Three-fourths
of the cocoa palms, on which the is-lands
depend for nourishment, snd
•heir commerce in copra were level-ed
and all the remainder injured.
Some plantation-.) were wiped out.
It will be a year before any food
plants can be brought Into bearing
again and three thousand Inhabi-tants
are destitute. T-~e American
gunboat Princeton is conveying food,
clothing and temporary assistance
but the need for further aid is ur-gent.
The South seas have known hurri-canes
before, but the situation left
in \b« wake of this on* Is described
as unprecedented.
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